Bung-hole protector



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRYGINTL F AKRON, onto.

SUNG-HOLE PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,050, dated January 2, 1883. Application tiled October 21, 1582. (No model.)

'in thecounty of Summit and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bun g-Hole Protectors; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled iu the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

Vwhich forni a Apart of this specication, and in which- Figure lis aperspective view of part of a caskorbarrel provided with my bung-protector. Fig.'2 is a plan view of the under side 0i' the device detached, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to devices for protecting bungs of casks or barrels and for closing the bung-holes after the bung has been removed; and it consists in the improved construction of parts of such a device, which will be hereinafter more' fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, the fetter A represents the head of a cask or barrel, and B the staves.

C is a plateor block of metal, the outside of which iits into the curve orchine of the staves,

to the upper part of which it is fastened, im-

' bolts or other suitable means.

mediately above the head, by means of screw- A lip, D, projects i'rom the inner side ofthe plate C, nearly touching the head of the barrel when it is in position.

On a stud, E, which maybe screwed or riveted into the lip D, is pivoted a spring-steel arm, F, which presses hard against the head .0f the cask or barrel. The stud E may be fastened to the under side of the lip D either by being screwed in, driven through a hole inthe lip, and swaged on the other side, or by being made in one piece with the lip and pass- -ing through a hole in the one end of the arm F, swaged over it to hold it fast, which latter way I prefer, and have shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The outer free end of the arm F forms a disk, G, to the under side of which a disk, H, of leather, rubber, or any other yielding material, is fastened. l

As the simplest and most effectual stopper,

I prefer to use a rounddisk of leather or ru'n- Y ber, and fasten it by driving a rivet, I, through the rubber disk H andthe end G of the'arm, and swaging the end of it on the upper side of the arm. The disk may, hwever, be made in a more elaborate manner, in the same shape as the rubber to certain bottle-Stoppers, adapt` ed to be buttoned over a button fastened to the under side of disk G, or in any other desirable manner.

The under side ofthe lip D, facing the head of the cask, has two recesses,-J J, one on each side, to receive the two bent ends of a steelwire clamp, K. This clamp consists of a piece of steel wire bent in the middle, its two arms running parallel, and having their outer ends bent inwardly at right angles with the arms. The plate C is fastened to the inside, of the chine in such a position that in turning-the arm F on the stud E it will cover the bung or bung-hole with the disks G and H. Whencask, on which it bears heavily by the strength of the spring-steel, the clamp-is removed from the recesses in the under side of the lip and the bent ends introduced on both sides under the arm, when a better hold is afforded for moving it: VWhen the arm is in position the bent ends of the clamp are again slipped into the recessesin the lip, and form a holdl or handle for the'easier handling of the cask, for

which purpose the central portion of it may be covered with leather, wood, or othermaterial. The disks may also be placed over the bung to protect it and to hold a revenue-stamp, where ,such are used, or any label that may be desired to place over the bung.

Having thus described myinvention, l claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States- The device for protecting bungs and bungholes, consisting of a curved plate adapted to be secured to the staves of a cask, and provided with a projecting lip recessed at both' lip, substantially as and for the purpose llerero sides of its under side, a spring-steel arm pivin 'shown and described.

oted to the said lip and provided at its outer In testimony that I claim the foregoing as disk-shaped end with a disk ot' yielding mate my oWuI have hereunto affixed my signature rial adapted to cover the bung or bung-hole in presence oflwo witnesses.

of a Cask, and a steel-Wire clamp having parl HENRY GINTZ. allel arms bent inwardly at right; angles at Witnesses:

their outer ends, and/said ends fitting into the GEORGE V. SIEBER, cylindrical recesses in the under side of the l HARRY J. STAMBAUGH. 

